Blog Authorship Corpus — Female Bloggers (13–17)

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 1,804 bloggers, 2,070 posts, collected by Schler et al. for AAAI 2006. Each record contains blog post text, gender, age, industry, astrological sign. Historical blog corpus from 2004 with rich metadata per blogger (gender, age, industry, astrological sign). Balanced across age groups and genders.. Suitable for authorship attribution, stylistic analysis, demographic language variation, historical NLP.

#Authorship attribution#Blog authorship corpus#Demographics#Teenager

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1,804 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

ageμ 15.253 ± 1.346
min 13max 17
5.3
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
5.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
like2004knowdongotlovethinktimewentgoinggooddaywanttodaypeopleaugustlifelolschoolfeelthingswayrightthingfunhomejunefriendssaiddontyeahnightdidnhahaneedlittletellbadcomejulygonnaguessnewlongtalkmomfriendworkmeanlet
Topic clusters

Topic 0

like
lol
know
good
day
fun
today
love

Topic 1

like
day
good
fun
school
today
time
come

Topic 2

kirsten
love
like
think
good
time
know
thing

Topic 3

love
know
feel
like
think
life
look
want

Topic 4

den
dun
tat
wat
like
haiz
noe
dunno

Topic 5

like
know
think
love
want
good
people
adam

Topic 6

god
like
think
know
thing
people
life
want

Topic 7

kyle
know
like
think
love
time
want
good

Topic 8

urllink
like
know
love
quizilla
thing
time
look

Topic 9

haha
haiz
den
thn
dun
liao
lor
today

Topic 10

know
like
think
good
thing
time
friend
want

Topic 11

like
know
want
think
mean
people
love
yes
Show all 14 topics

Topic 12

fuck
like
shit
fuckin
think
know
cuz
lol

Topic 13

soccer
like
think
play
urllink
know
lol
day
Top hashtags
#155
#252
#418
#317
#eien15
#59
#ffffff7
#__6
#ff33995
#64
#_____4
#053
#73
#93
#___3
#____3
#_____________________3
#m3
#0000002
#6752

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-female-teen
Authors
Schler, Jonathan; Koppel, Moshe; Argamon, S.; Pennebaker, J.
Year
2006
Source paper
Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging
License
Free for non-commercial research (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
Records
1,804
Languages
en
Collected
2004 (2000s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://huggingface.co/datasets/barilan/blog_authorship_corpus link checked
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Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 122.1 MB across 4120 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{schler2006,
  title     = {Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging},
  author    = {Schler, Jonathan and Koppel, Moshe and Argamon, S. and Pennebaker, J.},
  year      = {2006},
  booktitle = {AAAI Spring Symposium: Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Schler, J., Koppel, M., Argamon, S., & Pennebaker, J. (2006). Blog Authorship Corpus — Female Bloggers (13–17) [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-female-teen.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Schler, Jonathan, et al. Blog Authorship Corpus — Female Bloggers (13–17). 2006, blog-authorship-female-teen.echo.directory/.

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